02 Nov 19 - Eucharist for All Souls' Day

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Saturday, 2 November 2019

This week's webcast is taken from a Eucharist commemorating All Souls departed. Composers have approached the topic of death in a multitude of fashions, but Fauré himself described his attitude towards death 'as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience'.

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